INTERPROVINCIAL
Patea, March 29,
Mary O'Sullivan, widow, whose husband was killed by the vehicle accident here eighteen months ago, was arrested last evening for infanticide. The body of a male child over a week old was found wrapped in an old towel under her house by some children. On their alarm the woman removed it, telling them it was a little pig, and when the police arrived she was in the act of carrying it away in a kit. A string was found tied tightly round the neck of the body. The woman remarked on being r moved to ihe station that she supposed she would get two or three years. In the evening she to fully realise hr position, and her gribf was so great that ehe is now ft a very low state. An inquest will be held this afternoon. Mrs O'Sullivan, who ia only about 27 years of age, was considered a highly respectable woman before the death of her husband, by whom Bhohae four children.
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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VI, Issue 596, 31 March 1882, Page 2
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169INTERPROVINCIAL Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VI, Issue 596, 31 March 1882, Page 2
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